PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. Kearns, E.M., Ashooh, E. & Lowrey-Kinberg, B. "Racial Differences in Conceptualizing Legitimacy and Trust in Police." Forthcoming, American Journal of Criminal Justice.
2. Dolliver, M. & Kearns, E.M. "Is it Terrorism: Public Perceptions, Media, and Labeling the Las Vegas Shooting." Online first, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
3. Kearns, E.M. "Claims and Attributions: Why Take Credit for Terrorism?" Online first, Terrorism and Political Violence.        *Winner of the 2016 American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology Outstanding Student Paper Award                                *Winner of the 2015 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Symposium Best Student Paper Award
4. Kearns, E.M., Betus, A. & Lemieux, A.  ​"Why Do Some Terrorist Attacks Receive More Media Attention Than Others?"   Online first, Justice Quarterly.
5. Kearns, E.M., Betus, A. & Lemieux, A. "When Data Don't Matter: Exploring Public Perceptions of Terrorism." Online first,  Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
6. Kearns, E.M., Asal, V., Walsh, J. Federico, C. & Lemieux, A. "Political Action as a Function of Political Grievance and Social Identity: An Experimental Approach." Online first, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.
7. Kearns, E.M. (2018). ​"Exploring Officer Views of Community Policing in Counterterrorism." Online first, Police Practice and  Research.
8. Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2018). "If Torture is Wrong, What about 24?: Torture and the Hollywood Effect." Crime & Delinquency, 64(12): 1568-1589.
9. Lemieux, A., Kearns, E.M., Asal, V. & Walsh, J. (2017). "Support for Political Mobilization, Protest, and Terrorism in Egypt and Morocco: An Online Experimental Study." Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 10(2-3):124-142. 
10. Kearns, E.M. (2017). "Why Are Some Police Officers More Supportive of Community Policing with Minorities than Others?" Justice Quarterly, 34(7): 1213-1245.
11. Kearns, E.M. (2015). "The Study of Torture: Why It Persists, Why Perceptions of It are Malleable, and Why It is Difficult to Eradicate."  Laws, 5(1): 1-15.
12. Kearns, E.M., Conlon, B.L. & Young, J.K. (2014). "Lying about Terrorism." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 37(5): 422 - 439.

BOOK CHAPTERS 

1. Young, J.K. & Kearns, E.M. (2016). "Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide," in The Handbook on Homicide, eds. Fiona Brookman, Edward R. Maguire, and Mike Maguire. Wiley-Blackwell.
2. Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2013). "Military Tactics in Civil War," in The Routledge Companion to Civil War Studies, eds. Edward Newman and Karl DeRouen. Rutledge.

UNDER REVIEW

1. Delehanty, C. & Kearns, E.M. "Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies," Revise & Resubmit.
2. Kearns, E.M., Federico, C., Asal, V., Walsh, J., Betus, A., Lemieux, A. "Intergroup Images, Grievance, and Support for Protest and Terrorism."
3. Betus, A., Kearns, E.M. & Lemieux, A. "''Terrorism' or 'Mental Illness'?: Factors that Impact How Media Label Terrorist Attacks."

BOOK IN PROGRESS

1. Kearns, E.M.  & Young, J.K. "Tortured Logic: Why Americans Support for Torture in Counterterrorism." Under contract with Columbia University Press.

WORKING PAPERS - Draft Available

1. Kearns, E.M. ​"Why Are Some Crimes Reported to Police While Others Aren't?" 
2. Kearns, E.M. "If You See Something  Do You Say Something?: Using Conjoint Experiments to Examine Why People Report  Potential Terrorism Activity." ​
3. Sharo, C. & Kearns, E.M. "When to Call the Police?: How Crime Type and Contextual Factors Impact Crime Reporting."
4. Shupard, M. & Kearns, E.M. "Why Do Officers Support Community Policing?: A Cross-Departmental Comparison."

WORKING PAPERS - Data Collected & Drafting in Progress

1. Kearns, E.M. "Teaching Statistics: A Quasi-Experimental Comparison of Traditional versus Flipped Classroom Models."
2. Kearns, E.M. & Nix, J. "When do Policing Studies Replicate?: A Review of Multi-Agency Studies."
3. Kearns, E.M. & Senn, S. "Changes over Time in Officer Support for Community Policing with Minorities."
4. Bowman, R. & Kearns, E.M. "Variants in Views of Police Across and Within Races."
5. Senn, S. & Kearns, E.M. "Changes over Time in Officer Support for Community Policing Across Crime Types."
6. Lowery-Kinberg, B., Mellinger, H. & Kearns, E.M. "Unpacking the Black Box: How Interaction Style and Social Dominance​Orientation Impact Perceptions of Police."

GOVERNMENT REPORTS  

1. 2015. "When to Claim: A Cross-National Study of Claimed versus Unclaimed Terrorist Attacks." National Consortium for the  Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Research Brief.
2. 2015. "The Role of Law Enforcement in Fighting Terrorism," in Comprehensive Law Enforcement Review, Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS). Consulting researcher and co-author.
3. 2015. Presidential Task Force on 21st Century Policing, Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS). Consulting researcher.

RESEARCH GRANTS 
Funded:

1. Research Grants Committee (RGC) - $3,000, University of Alabama, 2018-2019.
2. College Academy for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (CARSCA) - $4,328, University of Alabama, 2018-2019. 
3. Fellow, Peace & Violence Research Lab - $4,000, American University, 2015-2016.
4. Doctoral Research Award - $4,994, American University, 2015-2016.
5. Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Terrorism Research Award - $5,000, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, 2014-2015.
6. Faculty Research Support Grant (with Joseph K. Young) – $10,000, American University, 2014, to conduct a series of experiments on perceptions of counterterrorism policies.
7. School of Public Affairs Research Scholars Grant (with Joseph K. Young) – $5,000, American University, 2013, to conduct a series of experiments on perceptions of counterterrorism policies.
8. Undergraduate Summer Scholars Grant–$2,000, Miami University, 2004

In Progress/Under Review:

1. Consortium member through START/University of Maryland, Terrorism Prevention and Counterterrorism Research (TPCR) Center of Excellence (COE), PI, "Evaluating State-Level Initiatives to Prevent Terrorism and Targeted Violence," $339,514.
2. Consortium member through Georgetown University, Terrorism Prevention and Counterterrorism Research (TPCR) Center of Excellence (COE), PI, "Reporting Terrorism and Targeted Violence," $367,825.

SELECT MEDIA COVERAGE
Interviews:

• Police Chief Magazine, (September 2019)
• CBC Radio - Vancouver on the Coast, (August 6, 2019)
• NPR's "All Things Considered," (March 23, 2018)
• "Humanity in the Headlines," (February 24, 2018)
• Colorado Public Radio, (November 9, 2017)
• ABC Australia, "Radio National," (July 6, 2017)
• NPR's "Morning Edition," (June 20, 2017)
• NPR's "Hidden Brain" podcast with Shankar Vedantam, (June 19, 2017)
• "CBS/KCBS San Francisco with Susan Kennedy," (March 19, 2017)
• "CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin," (December 10, 2014)

Web-Based Publications:

• Betus, A., Kearns, E.M & Lemieux, A., "Who's a Terrorist and Who's Mentally Ill? We Look at 10 years of News Coverage to Find Out," Washington Post (August 8, 2019).
• Kearns, E.M. & Amarasingam, A. "How News Media Talk about Terrorism & What the Evidence Shows," Just Security (April 5, 2019)
• Kearns, E.M. "An Expert on Political Violence Explains why the NRA's Ads Matter," The Trace (August 8, 2017)
• Kearns, E.M., Betus, A. & Lemieux, A., "Yes, the Media Do Underreport Some Terrorist Attacks, Just Not the Ones Most People Think of," Washington Post (March 13, 2017)
• Kearns, E.M., "Torture Doesn't Works, So Why are We Still Discussing It?" Political Violence at a Glance (February 2, 2017)
• Kearns, E.M. & Young, J., "Dramatic depictions of torture increase support for it," Washington Post (December 12, 2014)

My Work Featured In:

• The Guardian, "Terror Attacks by Muslims Receive 357% more press attention, study finds," (July 20, 2018)
• Think Progress, "America has a Skewed Perception of What Qualifies at Terrorism," (October 4, 2017)
• Foreign Policy, "The Rohingya Are the New Palestinians," (September 26, 2017)
• MSNBC with Ari Melber, "Study: Media Overrepresents Muslims as Terrorists," (July 2, 2017)
• Think Progress, "Non-Muslim Attackers Get a Lot Less Media Coverage than Those Who Claim Islam," (June 19, 2017)
• Cato Institute, "GAO Weights in on 'Countering Violent Extremism'," (April 13, 2017)
• Reason, "Do Muslims Commit Most U.S. Terrorist Attacks?" (March 24, 2017)
• The Independent, "News Media Do Under-Report Some Terrorist Attacks - Just Not Those Involving Islamist Extremists," (March 13, 2017)
• Pacific Standard, "Can Jack Bauer Convince You to Torture?" (January 5, 2015)
• Vox, "Torture is a culture. Releasing the Senate report is a way of fighting it," (December 11, 2014)
• The Washington Post, "The Senate CIA report says enhanced interrogation doesn't work. But Hollywood thinks it does," (December 10, 2014)
• Vox, "'24' makes people support torture, and other discoveries political scientists made this year,"  (September 8, 2014)